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The annoying bit is that sharing a series of cryptic shell commands is typically the most efficient way of telling someone how to get things done and of keeping them from wandering off in the GUI and doing something else instead.

This...

# dos2unix your-file.ini | crunchmeister-cli frobulate -d 9 --exclude-preflight alpha,delta --wank > ~/.config/somethingd/frobulated.dat && systemctl --user restart somethingd

...could be the equivalent of this.

1. Convert your raw data INI file to UNIX file endings using an appropriate tool (outside the scope of this tutorial)
2. Launch CrunchMeister
3. Enter the Frobulation section and navigate to Custom Frobulation
4. In the Input Data tab, upload the UNIXified INI file and set the data level to Full, with semicolons
5. In the Preflight tab, ensure that the Alpha and Delta packages are deselected. Starting with CrunchMeister 5.7, the Delta package is found under the Additional packages expander
6. In the Frobulate tab, enable wankness and hit the Frobulate! button
7. Save the resulting file to your disk
8. Launch Something Service Manager (install first if nor present)
9. Click New frobulated data file
10. Select the file you saved in step 6
11. Click Reload service

It's still cryptic, though. You can't have everything.

I appreciate comments like yours, and various others echoing the same sentiment in this thread and the HN thread. I'm far more proficient with techy stuff than the vast majority of people, but it's easy to feel incompetent if you're exposed to challenges outside of your primary domain (a feeling exacerbated by hanging out in spaces where most people seem to be super techy). It's validating to hear that even people far more experienced than me struggle with tutorials sometimes.

🤝🫂

Worst part is when some folks are too smart, and the mirror effect isolates them from normal folks from forming zeitgeist friendships. 😭

I still get slack for contracting plain English. Not even 70 years ago, Americans where contracting even script!

Like, everyone lost intelligence as tools advanced. Why can't scribes tier transpile my tutorials?